MEDICINE

Silica sand is one of many ingredients used in fracking -- and demand is soaring. But the process has health and environmental consequences.

Obama offered an impassioned plea to a meeting of ministers and leaders from around the world to contribute to the Ebola fight.

Liberia has seen the deadliest Ebola outbreak, with some 3,280 infected people and 1,720 Ebola-related deaths. Hospitals are overwhelmed.

A number of top beverage makers have pledged to take steps to reduce the amount of calories Americans consume each day via sugary drinks.

Among the most promising of a slew of experimental Ebola vaccines is a drug called ZMapp –- and it could have been ready years ago.

Health specialists around the world are anxious to better predict when and where an outbreak could hit.

American hospitals do not have the means to properly dispose of medical waste contaminated with Ebola, safety experts have said.

Former Alaska reporter Charlo Greene reportedly terrorized her neighbor's child with her habitual marijuana use.

Jasmine Tridevil, who claims to have a third boob, admitted on Facebook her real name is Alisha Hessler.

Botox and fillers are just a few of the treatments actress Kaley Cuoco is accused of having undergone in recent years.

The CDC gave its best- and worst-case scenarios for the Ebola virus outbreak, which may reach more than a million cases by early 2015.

Ebola cases in West Africa have increased to 5,800 and the virus has killed more than 2,800 people so far.

Jasmine Tridevil, 21, claimed she had plastic surgery to get a third breast.

KTVA reporter Charlo Greene quit on live television concerning the possible legalization of marijuana in Alaska.

Ebola virus disease cases are doubling every three weeks now that outbreak has moved into urban areas.

Newly crowned Miss America Kira Kazantsev had a college internship at Planned Parenthood.

The organization Grow4Vets is having a pot giveaway in Denver on Saturday. The event will give marijuana to vets "who need it most."

The White House has enlisted celebrities to help promote a new campaign aiming to end sexual assaults on college campuses.

Three journalists and two doctors were among the group attacked by local residents.

At least 2,622 people have died in the worst outbreak of Ebola virus in history, which has so far infected at least 5,335 people in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

A preliminary investigation revealed that a drug named Atracurium, a muscle relaxant, was accidentally given to nearly 75 infants.